Another Climate Propaganda Unit Funded at the University of Chicago

“The Computation Institute at the University of Chicago is leading a new multi?institutional, interdisciplinary center to build tools to help governments, the private sector and individuals make better?informed decisions relating to both climate and energy policies and the long?term consequences of climate change.

“The Center will consist of experts in economics, physical sciences, energy technologies, law, computational mathematics, statistics and computer science. The group will undertake a series of tightly connected research programs aimed at improving the computational models needed to evaluate energy and climate policies and guide decisions based on outcomes.”

This is yet another new institution with a core of believer scientists, with the same agenda and the same sources, and it will add to the “scientific consensus” in the “count of institutions” supporting the agenda. Core believers include Robin Hankin and Rachel Warren, from the UK Tyndall Centre. Warren is a long term CRU warmer, associate of Tom Wigley (former CRU and now NCAR) on modelling, involved with the MAGICC model with Wigley, one of the main climate models used by IPCC over the years.

I think we can guess what we will get for the $6million, although “climategate” has obviously had an impact:

“A unique feature of CIM?EARTH will be the open science philosophy. All source code will be open, enabling independent scholars and policymakers to review its assumptions and provide feedback for enhancements. All models, data and tools developed by the Center will be available to the community, both as standalone components and as an integrated modeling framework. Furthermore, CIM?EARTH will include user?friendly interfaces that will allow others to investigate their own variants of CIM?EARTH with no major coding effort.”

“Preliminary work on the Center was enabled by a $350,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.”

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